Faces/anniversary/marriage Licenses/births

June 21, 1989

FACES

* Paintings by Sidney E. King of Milford in Caroline County will be on exhibit from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday-Thursday through June 29 in the Chinn Center Gallery on the Warsaw Campus of Rappahannock Community College.

King is known for his paintings of life in American during the Colonial and Revolutionary periods and outstanding events of the Civil War.

His large historical paintings are seen in most of the national parks in the eastern United States. He is best known for his mural, "The Life of Christ," exhibited in the Mormon Pavilion at the World's Fair in New York. It is now installed permanently in the Mormon Information Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Also there, is the largest mural in North America, painted by King, portraying "Creation."

King studied at the Museum of Fine Arts, Vesper George School of Art, Copley Society, Federal School of Minneapolis and Massachusetts School of Normal Art.

The paintings of oil, acrylics and water colors on exhibit at Chinn Center show King's passion for the beauty of commonplace scenes.

ANNIVERSARY

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fulton Crockett of Route 1, Hayes, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with a tea for family and friends on June 17 at the Parish House of Abingdon Church in White Marsh. Their children are Lawrence Crockett of Bena; Ray Crockett of Charleston, S.C.; Anne McClary of Appomattox; Nancy Carter of Toole, Utah and Bernice Davenport of Stanton.

The Crocketts were married June 20, 1929 in Hampton. They have 17 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

Mrs. Crockett is the former Elizabeth Lawrence of Ware Neck in Gloucester County.

MARRIAGE LICENSES

GLOUCESTER COUNTY

The following marriage licenses were issued in the Gloucester clerk's office May 31-June 7: